2005 Martin Luther King Jr. Day Schedule

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Wednesday December 22, 2004 9:57 am	2005 Martin Luther King Jr. Day Schedule 2005 Martin Luther King Jr. Day Schedule.
Saturday December 21, 2002 2:47 pm	King Day events feature prominent activist and filmmaker Award-winning filmmaker Joanne Grant, a writer and veteran civil rights activist of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, is the keynote speaker for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances at Bates College.
Thursday January 3, 2002 3:51 pm	The Martin Luther King Jr. Read-in The Bates College education department and Center for Service-Learning sponsor an annual Martin Luther King Day Read-In at Martel School. Student, staff and faculty volunteers are encouraged to participate. Readers will share a book with a diversity theme with a 4th-, 5th- or 6th-grade student. The book will then be given to the child to keep.
Thursday January 3, 2002 3:51 pm	King Day events feature prominent theologian James H. Cone, America’s pre-eminent black theologian, is the keynote speaker for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances at Bates College. Scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 21, in Alumni Gymnasium, Cone’s address is part of a celebration of King’s life and work that includes performances, workshops and a debate between Bates and Morehouse College. All events are open to the public free of charge.
Thursday January 3, 2002 3:50 pm	The Evening Program Student dancers, under the direction of hip-hop choreographer W. Barry Dean, will perform an original piece commissioned for the MLK Jr. observation. A resident of Lewiston, Dean comes from Chicago and attended the University of Southern Maine. He teaches hip-hop at Bates and with Elizabeth Hansen’s Dance Studio in Lewiston.
Thursday January 3, 2002 3:45 pm	Spiritual Journey African American Mysticism: A Father and Son’s Journey with Contemporary Mystic Howard Thurman
Thursday January 3, 2002 3:42 pm	MLK Jr. Day Concurrent Workshops MLK Jr. Day Concurrent Workshops.
Thursday January 3, 2002 3:41 pm	Debate between Bates and Morehouse Colleges The visiting team comes from Morehouse College, the Atlanta institution known for its tradition of illustrious graduates, including The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Benjamin Mays, Bates class of 1920, was president of Morehouse for 27 years and a mentor to King. The Bates debate team, of which Mays was an accomplished member, comes with a longstanding and esteemed tradition of debate. The forum includes an opportunity for audience members to speak.
Thursday January 3, 2002 3:37 pm	The Keynote Presentation Welcome by President Donald Harward Music by The Bates College Jazz Ensemble Overview by Jill R. Reich, vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty Musical Selection: “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” Naturally Seven Speaker Introduction by John McClendon, associate professor of African American studies and American cultural studies.
Thursday January 3, 2002 3:35 pm	Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Service The Rev. Joan Martin William Rankin Professor of Ethics, Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass. Music by The Bates College Deansmen, Shape Notes Singers and Northfield Also featuring Bates dancers Devon Fitchett ’02, Justin Stebbins ’02 and Aisha Bell ’03, and a troupe of student actors who will provide a dramatic interpretation of the text that Martin has chosen for the evening.

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Wednesday

December 22, 2004
9:57 am

2005 Martin Luther King Jr. Day Schedule.

Saturday

December 21, 2002
2:47 pm

King Day events feature prominent activist and filmmaker

Award-winning filmmaker Joanne Grant, a writer and veteran civil rights activist of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, is the keynote speaker for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances at Bates College.

Thursday

January 3, 2002
3:51 pm

The Martin Luther King Jr. Read-in

The Bates College education department and Center for Service-Learning sponsor an annual Martin Luther King Day Read-In at Martel School. Student, staff and faculty volunteers are encouraged to participate. Readers will share a book with a diversity theme with a 4th-, 5th- or 6th-grade student. The book will then be given to the child to keep.

Thursday

January 3, 2002
3:51 pm

King Day events feature prominent theologian

James H. Cone, America’s pre-eminent black theologian, is the keynote speaker for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances at Bates College. Scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 21, in Alumni Gymnasium, Cone’s address is part of a celebration of King’s life and work that includes performances, workshops and a debate between Bates and Morehouse College. All events are open to the public free of charge.

Thursday

January 3, 2002
3:50 pm

The Evening Program

Student dancers, under the direction of hip-hop choreographer W. Barry Dean, will perform an original piece commissioned for the MLK Jr. observation. A resident of Lewiston, Dean comes from Chicago and attended the University of Southern Maine. He teaches hip-hop at Bates and with Elizabeth Hansen’s Dance Studio in Lewiston.

Thursday

January 3, 2002
3:45 pm

Spiritual Journey

African American Mysticism: A Father and Son’s Journey with Contemporary Mystic Howard Thurman

Thursday

January 3, 2002
3:42 pm

MLK Jr. Day Concurrent Workshops

MLK Jr. Day Concurrent Workshops.

Thursday

January 3, 2002
3:41 pm

Debate between Bates and Morehouse Colleges

The visiting team comes from Morehouse College, the Atlanta institution known for its tradition of illustrious graduates, including The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Benjamin Mays, Bates class of 1920, was president of Morehouse for 27 years and a mentor to King. The Bates debate team, of which Mays was an accomplished member, comes with a longstanding and esteemed tradition of debate. The forum includes an opportunity for audience members to speak.

Thursday

January 3, 2002
3:37 pm

The Keynote Presentation

Welcome by President Donald Harward
Music by The Bates College Jazz Ensemble
Overview by Jill R. Reich, vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty
Musical Selection: “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” Naturally Seven
Speaker Introduction by John McClendon, associate professor of
African American studies and American cultural studies.

Thursday

January 3, 2002
3:35 pm

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Service

The Rev. Joan Martin William Rankin Professor of Ethics,
Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass.
Music by The Bates College Deansmen, Shape Notes Singers and Northfield
Also featuring Bates dancers Devon Fitchett ’02, Justin Stebbins ’02 and Aisha Bell ’03, and a troupe of student actors who will provide a dramatic interpretation of the text that Martin has chosen for the evening.